Re: Manual does not mention dictionary.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:13:44 +0300
> 
> I was wondering if Emacs could do dictionary look-ups.
> 
> After failed search through the manual (for "dictionary") I resorted to
> a web search.  It quickly showed that Emacs has included dictionary.el
> since version 28 or so.
> 
> Why this extremely useful feature is not mentioned in the manual at all?
> Or did I just miss it somehow?

We don't describe in the manual every feature we add to Emacs; we
describe that in NEWS instead.  The Emacs manual is already very
large, so we add new features to it only of they are very important.

I've now added to the manual a short description of the dictionary
search facility.

Thanks.